(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - international, Support for the struggle of the Kanak people for independence, Paris, 19 September (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]

Date
Thu, 6 Sep 2018 09:52:21 +0300

Support the right to independence of Kanaky. Against colonialism and racism. ---- For over
160 years, the Kanak people have been colonized by France, which has perpetrated countless
massacres against it. He has since struggled to become a free people and master of his
destiny. The forms of the resistance varied but this one never stopped: insurrections of
1878 to that of 1917, of the refusal of the conscription during the first world war to the
occupation of the cave of Ouvéa in 1988, peaceful demonstrations in the occupations of
town halls or other public buildings. For the Kanak people, colonization is the spoliation
of land, the setting aside of a minority organized on its own land, and a situation where
in all areas - wages, employment, standard of living, housing, health, education ... -
Kanak oppression and exploitation, racism and discrimination.

After more than a century and a half of struggle, the Kanak people have imposed through
their struggle the recognition of their right to self-determination. A referendum will be
held on November 4 that will decide the short-term fate of the Kanak people.

Read Kanaky: " Self-determination referendum, a chance or a trap ? " In Alternative
Libertaire in June 2018.
The scale of the economic and geostrategic stakes for France makes fear all the
manipulations. The long conflict over the elaboration of the electoral lists of the
referendum testifies to this, more than 19,000 Kanak are not registered, several thousands
of fraudulent inscriptions, in addition to a double modification of the law allowing the
opening of the electoral body to new categories of non-citizens.

Colonial France will do everything to preserve its economic interests (40% of world nickel
reserves) and its rank of military power which strengthens its presence in the South Pacific.

Anticolonialists, progressives, anti-racists in France and more broadly all those who
refuse to abandon the fight for the right of the peoples are concerned. Refusing to get
used to the unacceptable because it lasts is a necessity. Let us not forget that a people
who oppresses another can not be a free people.

On the eve of the referendum, it is urgent to hear Kanak independence organizations.

Organized by the Collective Ni wars and state of war, the Solidarity Collective Kanaky,
the FUIQP (United Front of Immigration and Popular Neighborhoods), the Pan-African
League-UMOJA Section France, the PIR (Party of Indigenous People of the Republic), Out of
the colonialism, Survival, UJFP (Union of Jews for Peace),
with the support of the CNT, Ensemble, the NPA and Solidaires.
Long live the resistance of the Kanak people !